Residency Is Hard on Relationships: What Residents and Their Partners Both Need to Understand
A resident describes relationship stagnation — limited couple time, a partner planning month-long trips during the resident’s already scarce free time, unresolved trust issues left over from med school that never got addressed. A non-physician partner of a first-year resident asks, genuinely, how to tell overwhelm from disinterest when a text goes unanswered for six […]
States Pour $200M Into Rural Physician Pipelines
State investments exceeding $200 million are reshaping rural physician workforce strategy, shifting from recruitment bonuses to embedded training infrastructure. New research shows rural residency training increases subsequent rural practice by 42%, explaining why states from Alabama to Arizona are funding medical education pipelines rather than competing for physicians trained elsewhere.